Afternoon Briefs: High-rise Miami courthouse closed for emergency repairs; Lawyers criticize National Guard border deployment
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Climate gentrification: Is sea rise turning Miami high ground into a hot commodity?
Miami is the first city to study the impacts of climate gentrification, a shift in consumer preferences for higher ground as climate change sends sea levels rising that displaces poor residents of color in Miami's few high elevation communities. When Paulette Richards answered the door of her Little Haiti home a year ago, she found […]
Is Birdman Facing Foreclosure on His Baller Mansion in Miami?
Last month, Birdman reduced the price on his Miami mansion in hopes of a quick sale. It turns out, the price cut might be related to a possible foreclosure. Foreclosure News
Birdmana s multimillion-dollar Miami Beach home faces foreclosure
With seven bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, Bryan “Birdman” Williams' Miami Beach “birdhouse” was listed for $ 20 million over the summer. The asking price was just reduced to a more affordable $ 16.9 million. Foreclosure News
Bank seeks to oust ex-a Real Housewives of Miamia star from Miami Beach home
A star of the now-defunct “The Real Housewives of Miami” faces the loss of her home of 13 years. Alexia Echevarria , a magazine publisher known on the Bravo reality fare as “the Cuban Barbie,” has been slapped with a foreclosure lawsuit by BankUnited. Foreclosure News
Court document: Miami “bank trust company” bought Wausau mall
The buyer of the Wausau Center Mall is the bank that called for its foreclosure auction, according to court documents filed Friday. Marathon County Sheriff Scott Parks reported that a limited liability company named RSS WFRBS2011C4 WCPC was the highest bidder at $ 12.8 million during the July 25 sheriff's action A year ago, a […]
Buzzer beater: Glen Rice, Miami condo part ways, but it wasna t a foreclosure
Beloved Miami Heat legend Rice, 50, managed to unload a downtown condo he owned with ex-wife Cristy , a former star of Real Housewives of Miami, just weeks before it was to be sold in a foreclosure auction. With his financial situation looking as grim as a Shaquille O'Neal free throw, Rice was desperate to […]
Missing out on midyear in Miami? Here’s the roundup of what’s gone on
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To recoup losses from the housing collapse, Miami pursues a novel suit
Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez stands near a demolished vacant property in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing Miami's case to sue banks that the city accuses of predatory lending. Foreclosure News
Miami hopes Supreme Court will agree it was a victim of banksa bad lending practices
In the last of its landmark civil rights laws, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968 to prevent African-Americans from being blocked from getting mortgages in white neighborhoods or from getting less favorable mortgage rates. Almost a half century later, Miami is asking the Supreme Court to decide whether major banks should pay the […]